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  • Floden, Robert E.
    Ph.D., Stanford University Teacher Education Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education 116M EH 517-432-2804/5-3486
    Email:     Robert E. Floden

    Robert Floden is a professor of teacher education, measurement and quantitative methods, and educational policy and is the director of the Institute for Research on Teaching and Learning. He has studied teacher education and other influences on teaching and learning, including work on the cultures of teaching, on teacher development, on the character and effects of teacher education, and on how policy is linked to classroom practice. His current research examines the preparation of mathematics teachers and the development of leaders in mathematics and science education.

    Areas Of Expertise
    * Educational policy and practice
    * Teaching, teacher education & teacher learning
    * Mathematics education
    * Philosophical issues in education
    * Research methodology

  • Frank, Kenneth A.
    Ph.D. University of Chicago
    Counseling, Educational Psychology, & Special Education
    460 EH
    517-355-8538
    Email: Kenneth A. Frank
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    Ken Frank is an assistant professor of measurement and quantitative methods. His substantive interests include the study of schools as organizations, how teachers influence one another to affect classroom practices and school decision-making, social networks, and the social context of learning. His substantive areas are linked to several methodological interests: social network analysis, hierarchical linear modeling, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, log-linear and logit models, simultaneous equation models and time series models. His publications include new quantitative methods for representing relations among teachers and how those relations affect teachers' orientations to teaching, the characteristics of schools, which affect teachers' orientations to teaching, and ways in which actors generate social capital from their social relations.

    Areas Of Expertise
    * Organizational Theory
    * Quantitative research methods
    * Social context and student learning
    * Multilevel models/research
    * Social network analysis